Kyiv residents demand the restoration of a historic building of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was damaged by a iranian drone attack
A petition was registered on the website of the Kyiv City Council with a request to restore the house of merchant Yosyp Lev at Zhilyanska Street.
The author of the appeal is Semen Shirochyn, a researcher of the history of architecture.
That’s how he reacted to the authorities’ intentions to demolish an architectural structure without an deep expertise of the damaged part of the building.
“The house of the merchant Yosyp Lev, which is an interesting example of the Kyiv brick style of the beginning of the 20th century with Gothic elements, lost part of the residential section, but the rest remained.
Using the left part of the house as a model, you can restore all the necessary details and restore the house,” the appeal reads.
The house on Zhilyanska Street was built at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The architect is unknown. The building combined elements of a typical example of the Kyiv brick style and at the same time small molded Neo-Gothic details.
About this to “Ukrainian Pravda”. Life” said local historian Anton Korob.
The house was built by the merchant Ioselian Itskovich Lev, who was also called Yosif Isakovich.
“A wealthy merchant had an enterprise on the same street, he owned a furniture manufacturing factory, where 61 workers worked, for those times it was a large production,” says Anton Korob.
The entrepreneur sold furniture, painted bathtubs, wash basins in a store located nearby. He also fulfilled state orders, supplied products to the South-Western, Moscow-Kyiv-Voronizhskaya, Kateryninskaya and other railways, steamboat management and other institutions.
Ioselian Lev was also engaged in social activities, was an elder in the synagogue. How the fate of the merchant developed after 1917 is unknown.
However, the house he built was preserved, it was repaired with the help of concrete slabs, without changing its appearance.
Source: Ukrainian truth. Life
Photo: Anton Korob